>  Most users drive Fords as well, and that is no reason to make Ford
>the only ones available.
>    I use (as does my university a Unix system.  Many people are now
>using Linux.  Believe it or not, some people still use Macs.  And
>Ataris and Commodores.  And dumb terminals attached to an IBM using
>EBSIDIC , or to OS2.
>    ASCII text is the only cheap, small, efficient and totally
>compatible files exchange system we have now.  I have absolutely no
>way, whether using a PC., Commodore 64, or Mac, to make use of any
>funny attachments that some into our Unix system at my university.
>   The object of communication is to talk to everyone, not Microsoft
>fans.


I certainly agree.  Besides, iMacs and iBooks have been the hottest
selling computers since they were introduced last August.  Millions
of people own Macs and that number will only rise.  We, for instance,
use 4 computers in our household.  Only one is a PC.

Jilla